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The Polka King learned to rap in prison. Jan Lewan, a Polish immigrant now living in Palm Springs, became the king of American polka music in the 1980s and ’90s. Along the way, he picked up a few other titles. Grammy nominee, millionaire, friend of Pope John Paul II, con man, convicted felon. And more recently, he became the subject...

When he saw the news footage last night of teenagers fleeing a school shooting with their hands up, Dr. Chris Colwell cried. “It took me right back to Columbine nearly 20 years ago,” said Colwell, an emergency physician who sorted through the dead and the living at the Colorado high school where 13 died in 1999. Thirteen...

High-profile divorces have long been a spectator sport in Palm Beach and Martin County courtrooms. Who can forget the lines for seats at Roxanne and Peter Pulitzer’s sensational 1982 divorce? Or the media frenzy surrounding the split between Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson in a Stuart courtroom in 1993? So, when the bitter divorce...

Name tags might have helped. When descendents of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney gathered for a reception at the Norton Museum of Art for the first exhibit of her work in 75 years, not everyone was sure who was whom or from which of the tangled branches of hundreds of Whitneys or Vanderbilts they descended. “It&rsquo...

The temple-like building in downtown West Palm Beach has kept its secret for 90 years. In the midst of the South’s Jim Crow era of the 1920s — at a time when Florida had more lynchings per capita than any other state — a supremely talented but unheralded African-American architect designed one of the city&rsquo...

You can’t take it with you, and that includes your sense of humor. So actor Leslie Nielsen left his behind to give us a chortle. A fart joke adorns the otherwise dignified Fort Lauderdale headstone of the actor, best known for comedic roles in absurdist spoofs such as “Airplane” and the “Naked Gun” movies...

_ In 1969, Butch Trucks was ready to give up his rock and roll dreams and head back to Florida State University. “I was going to be a math teacher,” said Trucks. Then, Duane and Gregg Allman and three other friends dropped by his Jacksonville house to jam. Five hours later, the six musicians had gelled as the Allman Brothers Band...

Editor’s note: This story originally published Jan. 22, 2017. Whatever else you say about our newly inaugurated president, one thing’s for sure: Donald Trump knows how to give anniversary gifts. For the 10th anniversary of his Palm Beach wedding to his wife, Melania, he presented her with a blinding 25-carat...

Residents of a Delray Beach duplex are without a place to live after a fire swept through one side of their building in the 200 block of Southwest Fourth Avenue Sunday afternoon. “Heavy flames” were shooting from one of the units when firefighters arrived shortly before 3 p.m., according to Capt. Kevin Saxton of Delray Beach Fire...

A man has died following a shooting in Pahokee early Sunday morning, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responding to shots being fired at Ivy Lane and South Lake Avenue at about 1:30 a.m. in Pahokee. The victim, Anthony Martin, 34, of Pahokee was taken to Lakeside Medical Center in Belle Glade by...